Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the only woman on the nation's highest court, had surgery today to remove a cancerous tumor from her pancreas.
And today, laser surgery is helping many people see perfectly without corrective lenses at all.
The drug, called anacetrapib, showed a remarkable ability to prevent the need for stent operations and bypass surgery in a preliminary study presented today at a big meeting of cardiologists in Chicago.
My surgery was seven years ago, and today I can safely say I will never go back.
Money in hand, Carpenter plunged into the most lucrative area in eye care today: refractive laser eye surgery to correct faulty vision.
The surgery is not unlike many eye surgeries today but in this case, a trained surgeon will implant the electronics underneath the skin of the eye, known as the conjunctiva.
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Today doctors use drugs instead of surgery to block these hormones.
Having to undergo surgery was not good news for Gray, though total knee replacement surgery is among the most common surgeries performed today in the United States.
Cuban President Fidel Castro is celebrating his 80th birthday today as he recovers from intestinal surgery that forced him to cede power to his brother Raul two weeks ago.
Ashley Blom, professor of orthopaedic surgery at the University of Bristol, told the Today programme's John Humphrys that the kind of hips being described are still being used even though the number has reduced.
Mr Anderson told Radio 4's Today programme the high-risk nature of emergency abdominal surgery was not being recognised.
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Even today treatment focuses on stabilizing the patient to prevent damage from spreading, with surgery to decompress the spine and steroids to prevent inflammation and protect remaining neurons.
While affection for the duke remains strong today -- as was shown by an outpouring of concern when he underwent heart surgery last year -- his public image as a dashing young man has long since been replaced by one of an irascible older figure.
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